Anyone else feeling the stress with ebay? As with the EU starting out as the Common Market, ebay has morphed into something (in my opinion) that controls rather than allows. Several buying transactions recently have resulted in hassle due to incorrect measurements... Ebay find in my favour, I follow instructions and am rained-on with hassle... It really has become too difficult to continue. Any further upgrades/purchases vis-a-vis NVA I will use PM and PayPal.

Anyway... My point is that internet sites (such as ebay) are supposed to be better or at least more convenient than more traditional outlets. This at first was quite true, but has more recently become more inconvenient. Yes, ebay has opened-up true markets, but at the same time has opened-up abusers of those true markets and (unfortunately) the terminally stupid.

No, ebay is not responsible for either abuse or stupidity. But their attempts to rectify such an imbalance means that I have to jump through several hoops to show that I am both correct, and the vendor is either incorrect, or stupid, or both. Hence the emphasis is shifted to me to prove (in my case) that Mr. Fudbrain cannot use a ruler, by photographs et al... and after doing that am pursued to reinforce/repeat same.

There are undoubtedly genuine vendors (me/Doc/several others). But the balance between convenience and opportunity versus hassle and crookedness/stupidity has shifted toward the stupid and the crooked.